US 36th Infantry Division

The US 36th "Arrowhead" Infantry Division was an infantry division of the US Army that existed from 1917 to 1919, from 1940 to 1945, and from 2004 to present. The division was formed from Texas and Oklahoma national guardsmen during World War I, and the division took part in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive during the war with the German Empire in France. In April 1943, the division was sent to Europe to take part in Operation Husky, taking part in the fighting from Naples to the Arno River in Florence from 1943 to 1944. In August 1944, the division took part in the Operation Dragoon landings in southern France, and it would take part in the push into the Rhineland region of western Germany and then into central Germany. After the war, its units returned to the American South, but the 36th Infantry Division would later fight in the Iraq War and Afghanistan War after being reformed in 2004.